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Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China

Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China PDF Author: Matthew H. Sommer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520287037
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492

Book Description
Polyandry. "Getting a husband to support a husband." Attitudes of families, communities, and women toward polyandry. The intermediate range of practice -- Wife-selling. Anatomy of a wife sale. Analysis of prices in wife sales. Negotiations between men in wife sales. Wives, natal families, and children. Four variations on a theme -- Polyandry and wife-selling in Qing law. Formal law and central court interpretation from Ming through high Qing. Absolutism versus pragmatism in central court treatment of wife sales. Flexible adjudication of routine cases in the local courts.
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